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â€˜Move over Meatâ€™ was the headline in theÂ NY Times Weekend.Â MasterChef UK winner Mat Follas uses his considerable culinary skills and understanding of flavour to create a collectionÂ of wow-factor vegetable recipesÂ for vegans, vegetarians and non-veggies alike.

More than ever before modern chefs use interesting new cooking techniques and ingredientsÂ to boost texture, add depth ofÂ flavourÂ and make so much more of humbleÂ carrots, kale and cauliflower. Vegetable dishes are now storming the menus at some of the worldâ€™s best restaurants where chefs are treating fresh vegetable produce with the reverence it deserves and turning ingredients that used to be reserved for side dishes into centrepieces. Organized by type of produce, there are recipes for root veg, alliums and bulbs, potatoes and squash, legumes and pods, sweet vegetables, shoots and stems, mushroom and funghi, as well as basic recipes for a well-stocked chef's storecupboard. Choose from Smoked Parsnips with Blue Cheese, Cauliflower &Â Truffle Pate, Red Cabbage &Â Burnt Aubergine Baba Ganoush, Kale Gnocchi, Kimchi, Spring Pistou Soup,Â Nettle &Â Wild Garlic SoupÂ with Gruyere Toasts, Red Onion Tarte Tatin, Pea Panna Cotta, Pizza Bianca, Spaghetti Puttanesca, Artichoke Frittata, Champagne Mushrooms, Fennel &Â Roast Tomato Lasagne or a selectionÂ of versatile sauces, ketchups, chutneys, pickles, pestos and oils. Whether you want a revitalizing juice to start the day, a quick summer salad, a slow-roasted winter bake or to preserve an abundance of seasonal produce, you'll find plenty of fresh inspiration here.

Mat Follas is a chef, food writer and judge of the Great Taste Awards. Winner of MasterChef UK (BBC) in 2009, he owned restaurant The Wild Garlic which opened to considerable acclaim, including 2 AA Rosettes and recommendations in the Good Food and Michelin guides, and in 2014 opened a second restaurant within The Casterbridge Hotel in Dorchester. He regularly runs courses on foraging and wild plants, is featured in the 'Guardian' and wrote the forward for the 'AA Restaurant Guide 2014'. Mat is a regular judge for MasterChef UK, The Great Taste Awards and the World Cheese Awards, and his recipes are published in a variety of magazines includingÂ BBC GoodFood,Â OliveÂ andÂ Delicious. Mat lives in Dorset with his family.